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Halloween The History of the Holiday
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After the Fall, mankind turned to worshipping creation instead of Almighty God the Creator. Assyrians developed a complex system of sun worship, which spread throughout the world from Babylon. The Celts of Gaul (France), Britain, and Ireland developed their own brand of worship, calling their sun god Samahain, who was appeased with human sacrifices at ceremonies conducted by their priests, the Druids.
Like most priests who offer blood sacrifices, they were allowed to eat the flesh of the sacrifice, in this case human flesh. The word cannibal derives from Druid priest or Canah, who offered and ate sacrifices to Baal (Satan).
So prevalent was this practice that when Britain was conquered by the Roman Empire in AD 52-3, Caesar had to issue a decree banning human sacrifice by the subjugated Druids. But habits die hard, and the conquered Druids simply continued their demonic rituals in secret.
A significant aspect of the Pagan Druid religion was witchcraft; the invocation of spirits, placing curses, conjuring up the dead, sorcery, magic, and murder through the craft. Each specifically and repeatedly forbidden by Almighty God in scripture. Their traditions were relayed by word of mouth, but accounts exist from Irish and Scottish Celtic literature as well as lurid Roman descriptions of their practices.
The Godfather takes over
Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, Catholic Rome combined the Druid New Year festival held on October 31st and November 1st into the approved roster of Catholic 'Christian' holidays. The Pope conceding that animal sacrifices may be offered in a futile attempt to legitimize the pagan religion.
The Druid festival however was centered on human sacrifice, usually firstborn babes, at places like the stone circle of Stonehenge, Pendle Hill in Lancashire, and Alderley Edge in Cheshire in the UK, and many other locations in Wales, Scottland and Ireland.
Druids believed that on this night [Druid New Year, Oct 31st- Nov 1st] the spirits of dead sinners were released by Samahain from their place of torment and roamed the earth. To ward them off they put food offerings outside their homes, and made frightening lanterns to spook the spooks. Today children out "trick or treating" represent the evil spirits demanding a sacrifice of food under the threat of being cursed [trick or treat], and the making of pumpkin lamps to defend yourself against demon spirits represents the tradition of Druid witchcraft to ward them off.
Catholics recognized the similarity with their superstition of purgatory and had no compunction adapting this to become "All Saints Day," which was soon incorporated by Pope Gregory IV into the official list of Roman Catholic festivals. The word Halloween is a conjunction of "All Hallows Eve", the name coined from All Saints Day. Celebrating saints released from purgatory, erroneous as that is, may seem milder in title than the pagan Druid practices, but it is not the tradition celebrated on Halloween night in America and around the globe.
Druid Yuppies
The Druid Pagan tradition continues to this day, with it's secret rites, even enjoying a resurgence in post-Christian England. The old Druid haunts are still in use for sun worship and nocturnal demonic revelry. UK police have many recent ritual murders on record, and very few cases are ever solved. Incidences of ritual cannibalism are being increasingly reported in Europe, Canada, America and Australia.
Christian View of Halloween
Halloween has nothing to do with Christianity, but is simply Satan worship derived from Babylonian practices. Christians should only ever get involved for one reason: to denounce, expose, and destroy it by proclaiming Christ's Victory over all the works of the Devil, and trampling on satanic snakes and demonic scorpions in Jesus' name.
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